CFP: Revisiting the South in African-American Literature (1/10/07; ALA, 5/24/07-5/27/07)

full name / name of organization:

Nash, Will

contact email:

nash@middlebury.edu

The African-American Literature and Culture Society invites proposalsrelated to the following topic, for a session at the American LiteratureAssociation meetings in Boston [May 24-27, 2007].

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Revisiting the South in African-American Literature

>From the beginnings of the African-American literary tradition, writershave engaged in examinations of black life in the American South.Issues of familial and communal heritage, conceptions of homeland,experiences of migration, and relations among various racial and ethnicgroups are among the most prominent and pressing themes in this body ofwork. How are contemporary writers continuing and modifying thisexamination, particularly in a post-civil rights moment? =20